BILL NUMBER: ACR 21	CHAPTERED  04/20/99

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER   15
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   APRIL 20, 1999
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY   APRIL 19, 1999
	ADOPTED IN SENATE   APRIL 15, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   APRIL 15, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   APRIL 12, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   APRIL 5, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Davis
   (Principal coauthor:  Assembly Member Kuehl)
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Aanestad, Ackerman, Alquist, Aroner,
Ashburn, Baldwin, Bates, Battin, Baugh, Bock, Brewer, Briggs,
Calderon, Campbell, Cardenas, Cardoza, Cedillo, Corbett, Correa, Cox,
Cunneen, Dickerson, Ducheny, Dutra, Firebaugh, Floyd, Frusetta,
Gallegos, Granlund, Havice, Honda, House, Jackson, Kaloogian, Keeley,
Knox, Leach, Lempert, Leonard, Longville, Lowenthal, Machado,
Maddox, Maldonado, Margett, Mazzoni, McClintock, Migden, Nakano,
Olberg, Oller, Robert Pacheco, Rod Pacheco, Papan, Pescetti, Reyes,
Romero, Runner, Scott, Shelley, Soto, Steinberg, Strickland,
Strom-Martin, Thompson, Thomson, Torlakson, Villaraigosa, Wayne,
Wesson, Wiggins, Wildman, Wright, and Zettel)
   (Coauthors:  Senators Alarcon, Alpert, Baca, Bowen, Brulte,
Burton, Chesbro, Costa, Dunn, Escutia, Figueroa, Hayden, Haynes,
Hughes, Johannessen, Johnson, Johnston, Karnette, Kelley, Knight,
Lewis, McPherson, Monteith, Morrow, Mountjoy, O'Connell, Ortiz,
Peace, Perata, Polanco, Poochigian, Rainey, Schiff, Sher, Solis,
Speier, Vasconcellos, and Wright)

                        MARCH 3, 1999

   Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 21--Relative to California
Holocaust Memorial Week.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 21, Davis.  California Holocaust Memorial Week.
   This measure would designate the week of April 11 through April
17, 1999, as California Holocaust Memorial Week, and would urge
Californians to observe these days of remembrance for the victims of
the Holocaust in an appropriate manner.




   WHEREAS, More than 50 years have passed since the tragic events we
now call the Holocaust transpired in which the dictatorship of Nazi
Germany murdered six million Jews as part of a systematic program of
genocide known as "The Final Solution of the Jewish Question"; and
   WHEREAS, The Holocaust was a tragedy of proportions the world had
never witnessed; and
   WHEREAS, Five million others were also murdered by the Nazis
because of physical disabilities, sexual orientation, ethnic
heritage, and political ideology; and
   WHEREAS, Countless others, still living, who were imprisoned,
tortured, and torn from their family members, have, as survivors,
struggled for years to overcome the results of that cruel treatment;
and
   WHEREAS, We must be reminded of the reality of the Holocaust's
horrors so they will never be repeated; and
   WHEREAS, Each person in the State of California should set aside
moments of his or her time every year to give remembrance to those
who lost their lives in the Holocaust; and
   WHEREAS, The United States Holocaust Memorial Council has
designated the week of April 11 through April 17, 1999, as Holocaust
Memorial Week Days of Remembrance for Victims of the Holocaust; and
   WHEREAS, April 13, 1999, is Yom HaSho'ah, and has been designated
internationally as a day of remembrance for victims of the Holocaust;
now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the week of April 11 through April 17, 1999,
be proclaimed as California Holocaust Memorial Week, and that
Californians are urged to observe these days of remembrance for
victims of the Holocaust in an appropriate manner; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.
